دراسة وقعة عاشوراء في شعر ابن شَكيل الأندلسي

Study of the Examination of Ashura Remembrance in Ibn Shakil Al-Andalusi’s Poem

The personality of Imam Hossein (as) and the events of the eternal Day of Ashura are among the highly addressed topics in the Islamic literature. Many poets in Islamic countries have addressed this event with honesty and inner purity, and have composed marvelous poems. Ahmad ibn Shakil (578 – 605 AH) is one of the talented poets of Al-Andalus whose lifetime coincided with the Islamic dominance era. He is s Shi’a poet of Al-Andalus during The Almohad caliphate. He utilized Shi’a concepts such as the al-Tathir verse, Hadith Kisa (Tradition of the Cloak), Hadith Manzelat [Tradition of Dignity], and Ashura in his poems. Ibn Shakil has composed two odes about Ashura and elegy of Imam Hossein (as), in which he refers to and mourns for happenings before Imam Hossein’s martyrdom, such as the loyalty and bravery of Imam Hossein’s companions, closure of the Euphrates branch and Imam and his companions’ thirst, and his aloneness, as well as the events after his martyrdom, such as his holy head being mounted on a spear and captivity of his family. This article describes and analyzes the content of this Shi’a poet’s poems about Ashura.